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PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND HEALTH PROMOTING LIFESTYLE AMONG DIPLOMA NURSING STUDENTS IN MALAYSIA
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KIM SOH*, KIM LAM SOH, SALIMAH JAPAR, SWEE LEONG ONG, AZURA ABDUL HALAIN, AMINUDDIN YUSOF
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The aims of this study are to assess the physical activity level and health-promoting lifestyle among diploma nursing
students in Malaysia. Besides, this study also aims to compare whether there were significant differences in term of
the physical activity level and health-promoting lifestyle between urban and rural diploma nursing students. This study
involved 123 diploma nursing students who currently pursuing the diploma degrees in the two local government
institutions. The YAMAX Digi-Walker pedometer was used to measure physical activity based on their weekly (7
days) step counts. And the Health-promoting Lifestyle Profile (HPLP) II questionnaire was used to measure the
nursing student’s health-promoting lifestyle. The HPLP II consisted of six sub-scales which included health
responsibility, physical activity, nutrition, spiritual growth, interpersonal relations, and stress management. The mean
weekly step counts reported was 8839.96±2613.58 steps. The diploma nursing students in the urban institution were
reported to have higher mean step counts as compare to the diploma nursing students in the rural institution. Mean
score obtained for HPLP II among the diploma nursing students was 2.56±0.34. Both diploma nursing students were
found to have the highest score for spiritual growth, follow by interpersonal relations and stress management.
Meanwhile, health responsibility was reported to be the lowest score for both institutions. Since unhealthy behaviors
are associated positively with the nurses’ health promotion roles in the future, so encouraging them to live healthily
starting when they were pursuing their diploma was necessary in order to achieve this noble mission.
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Physical activity, health promotion lifestyle, nursing students, and pedometer
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2018.10.04.006
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